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I'm having a lot of problems buying the 10% off Google Play gift cards on Amazon.
Every time I buy one of these cards, my account somehow gets flagged that I am a potential victim of an ATO scam. My order then shows a status of "Scheduled" and after a couple of hours, I get a call from an Amazon rep asking me why I'm buying the gift cards & asking me whether I'm being scammed.
After my confirmation that I'm not being scammed, the Amazon rep then says that he'll process the order & I then get the email with the link to get the gift card code. If I then try to click on the link, I get an error message saying that the card is not valid & I should contact the retailer from where I purchased the gift card & mention the error code EGIFT_IRE3_504.
The first time this happened was on Sunday, and I then spent 4 days trying to get Amazon to fix this issue. Amazon first told me to contact Google Play. After 3 days of back and forth with a Google rep, they finally said that they couldn't help me & I should contact Amazon. I then went back to Amazon & after around 2 hours of chat discussion, I finally found a helpful Amazon rep who cancelled my order & told me to buy the cards again.
I then bought the cards again, and received one of them successfully, before the second card order was again flagged and is now showing the same error message when I try to get the card code.
TLDR - Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can stop my Amazon gift card orders being flagged as a potential ATO scam victim ? Should I try using a different Amazon account ? Are some card types (e.g. Amex or a Visa debit) which are less likely to be flagged ?
I've never been flagged. But I only buy one at a time. I pay with my Amex.